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Conservatives are afraid. They (at least the professionals and the GOP as an organisation) are well aware that they are on course to get irrelevent in the future. Not only are their politicians getting older, their voter base is getting older and shrinking. So the try everything in the book to stay relevant: Gerrymandering, reducing access to the voting process fro people who are unlikely to vote for them, etc. And as we all know, fear, or worse, existencial dread, leads to hate for the other side, the group of people seen as their very threat to their existence.

They are basically cornered rats, clawing and biting the pest control man.

I bought and installed gallery rails in the living room. We wanted to completely re-arrange alle the framed stuff there, and I didn’t want to turn the wall into swiss cheese. The hooks I’ve bought have been a bit beefy for some things I needed to hang, so I had to put a few of them to the grinder, but all in all this made the walls very neat, and easily to rearrange later.

Do you have to break your fingers, too, to switch them off?

The “free ride on public transport” is something I only knew from Japan. Although I would not profit from this, I’d prefer they would use this method here, too.

There are tools with which you can drive out the pins. They are only good for straight bands, not the tapered ones (unless you don’t care for the looks).

Before browsers even existed, there already was the internet. We had social media (NNTP and IRQ), online multi-user games (MUD, et al.), browsing (Gopher) and file hosting (FTP).

I was introduced to the web and the Arena browser with the words “It’s just like Gopher, but with hypertext.”

I stand corrected. Thank you!

There is an easily hackable and cheap device from IKEA by the name of “VINDRIKTNING”. There are YT videos on how to wifi-enable that thing and integrate it into home automation services.

Maybe because this is (still) the more adult place?

It would give you a good chance to win a Darwin Award.

Yep. Denture cleaners are quite good for food-safe stuff. When we cleaned out grandmas flat, I put her cleaner tablets aside, astonishing the other family members with my move: “But you’ve got no dentures?!?!” Those pills are great for cleaning vases or thermos bottles.

The main product line of our company is basically all architectured and programmed by me.

Good addition, I somehow forgot they had a lot of old shipping nobility there.

Theoretically, that coalition should mainly consist of countries like Malta, Panama, Liberia, Bolivia, and Mongolia. The safety of ships is duty of the country under which flag they sail. I doubt any freighter down there is registered in the US or any EU state (except Malta).

They are free to try. What shall they do if you say “No”?

Which would actually a big improvement over Reddit.

Designing our streets for pedestrians first, transit/bikes next and private motor vehicles last is the way it should be.

Nobody designed them the way they are, at least not with a grand design in mind. Traffic is shaped by planning for existing demand. To change planning, you need to change the demand first. Working against demand won’t get you anywhere, at least not in politics, and they are holding the purse strings.

North-american style car-dependent suburbs are an aberration that should disappear altogether.

While it is not wrong, as long as you don’t have a credible idea why millions of people should give up their homes to live in overpriced shoe boxes without a bit of green and quiet in the city, this will get you nowhere. People love living in spaceous houses they own. People love having some green around them. People love the quiet. And first of all, people love not having to deal with all the other city problems.

It is immoral that the people living sustainably in urban centers are subsidizing the people living at large in the suburbs.

Remember that those urban centers would and could simply not exist without people from the outskirts working and shopping in those urban centers. The dependency is definitely not one-sided.

Looks like you’ve never been in a town in the Netherlands. I’ve been, many times, and it’s not all roses. Yes, they are often better for bikers, but overall, they are traffic nightmares.

The low-density housing situation is an American problem that we don’t have. We, on the other side, have cities grown for thousands of years, and nobody thought of leaving space for people, bikes, and public transport. So we usually try to protect the weakest (the pedestrians) by giving them a safe space (unless violated by bikers), and the streets have to be shared, simply because there is no space. Yes, you can wish for all cars to vanish there, but it is not realistic. Just like wishing your suburbans away.

I never said it was not doable. I just made it clear that making personal cars somehow “vanish” will not really change the financial side of things.

I’m not against change. On the contrary. But I know that just wishing won’t help. One needs a realistic goal, and find an equally realistic way to get there. Anything else is just dreaming. Just saying “Cars have to vanish” won’t accomplish anything.

I wish anyone in this “FuckCars” community would actually think of a way to fix the world, and not just complain about the way it is.

Either enter politics yourself, or bribe the right people.